Professor Suggests OSHA Violations Could Prove Occupational Nature of COVID Claims

For those who have complained that COVID-19 workers' compensation claims are too difficult to prove and that federal citations aren't much of a deterrent to unsafe workplaces, here's an idea that would tie the two concepts together. If a worker falls ill from COVID, he or she would be presumed to have contracted the disease at work if the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the employer for a COVID-related violation. So says John Burton, an author and professor emeritus at Rutgers and Cornell universities. Burton pitched the idea in a webinar hos...